Bec Bell-Gurwitz

Bec Bell-Gurwitz (they/them) is a writer, teacher, and social worker living in Northampton, MA, on unceded Pocumtuck and Nipmuc land with their white wolf/dog, Milou. Their work appears in the anthology Strange Attractors: Lives Changed by Chance, The West Trade Review, The Citron Review, Khôra, and others. Bec is a 2021 Pushcart Prize nominee, won 2nd place in Pithead Chapel's 2023 Larry Brown Short Story Prize, as well as the 2024 Cara Parravani Memorial Award in Fiction, and has received support from Writing by Writers, Corporeal Writing, Bread Loaf, Juniper Institute and others. Their work primarily concerns queer bodies, care economies, and climate change and they are at work on a novel about generational trauma, ritual, and geology.